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RAT rover by night
ESA’s light-studded Rover Autonomy Testbed seen during night testing in Tenerife, intended to simulate the low…
Rovers drive through Tenerife darkness
A pair of ESA rovers trundled around a Moon-like area of Tenerife by both day and…
Rovers drive through Tenerife darkness
A pair of ESA rovers trundled around a Moon-like area of Tenerife by both day and…
Supersonic parachute testing
This parachute deployed at supersonic velocity from a test capsule hurtling down towards snow-covered northern Sweden…
Working on Tropomi
Tropomi – the most advanced multispectral imaging spectrometer to date – is carried on the Copernicus…
Bringing air pollution into focus
Sentinel-5 Precursor is the first Copernicus mission dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. With air pollution a…
Simplifying complexity
The flight dynamics experts working on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter mission meet regularly to assess…
Lisa Pathfinder end of Mission
The LISA Pathfinder mission ends on 18 July 2017 after a successful demonstration of the technology…
Insight into origin of space missions
Where do the detailed analyses underpinning new ESA space missions arise from? The Agency’s future-oriented basic…